John Henry Newman Quotes

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

John Henry Newman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 21, 1801 - August 11, 1890

Topics

ChangeFactsFindThingsTakeUs

I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and remembers better.

Jennette McCurdy

MemoriesTravelMindBetterYouUp

The primary goal of the so-called nonfiction text is to relay the facts of an event - the facts about a person, the facts of history - which is not why I turned to this genre.

John D'Agata

HistoryFactsGoalPersonWhyText

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Angelina Jolie

LifeGoodThinkBetterLearnCook

Why do you not practice what you preach.

St. Jerome

PracticeYouWhyPreach

My anxiety level of my own work and what I'm doing and focusing on my art and all of that stuff? That's fundamental.

Sufjan Stevens

WorkArtAnxietyDoingMy OwnOwn

For this reason poets and artists developed the doctrine of Art for Art's Sake. The community did not appear to need them, so, tit for tat, they did not need the community. This being granted, it was no longer necessary or even desirable to make one's poetry either intelligible or sympathetic to the community.

Louis MacNeice

CommunityArtPoetryNeedReason

Man, the flavor of a pineapple is 100 times more powerful than the flavor of meat.

Jose Andres

ManPowerfulMoreMeatFlavorThan

I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.

David Spade

PlayHonestNoteDifferentOnly

Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.

Paul Virilio

TruthScienceGraceFallNowMore

But the same thing was true in the army. You slept in a barracks with all kinds of people of every nationality, every trade, every character and quality you can imagine, and that was a good experience.

Shelby Foote

GoodCharacterExperienceQuality

Kathy Burke has been a real inspiration. I think she's brilliant. I like the fact she doesn't care what she looks like on TV and just gets really into character. Obviously, she can do drama as well, but it's her comedy I love.

Sheridan Smith

LoveCharacterThinkCareComedy

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

Mark Messier

NatureYourselfThinkEnoughYou

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